Guardian Article Puts Spotlight on Bitcoin as an Investment
Bitcoin is looking more attractive to potential investors particularly those who have had some disappointments using traditional forms of investments such as in the stock market or gold market. Investments in the digital currency have more than doubled in the past twelve months. According to CoinMarketCap, one bitcoin was worth about $230 around September 2015. Compared to its current rate of about $580 (as at the time of this writing), it has attained an increase of more than 150% in value. The price of bitcoin has fluctuated wildly since it was launched in 2009. In 2010, two pizzas were....
Related News
Online forex brokerage firm AlfaTrade introduces Guardian Angel, a tool that would assist both novice and seasonal traders in improving their trading strategies. The FCA-regulated UK company has made quite a name for itself when it comes to providing non-manipulative trading services. The saying perfectly reflects in its range of trade-learning solutions that include interactive videos and paper tutorials, as well as a separate section that discusses multiple trading strategies to help traders learn forex trades. With Guardian Angel, AlfaTrade simply outgrows itself and brings out a viable....
Coinetize, a micropayment service that pays in bitcoin, allows any website to accept payments for content. A key goal of the project, which is currently in private beta, is to free website content providers from having to compromise content quality with unattractive advertising that is often needed to monetize the content. Website visitors can purchase “Coinetize Credits” using either a credit card or bitcoin. Coinetize charges users a 1.8% fee. A website can allocate some of its pages to Coinetize to filter. Coinetize will only allow visitors access to those pages if the visitors have....
More countries are allegedly involved in a major global Bitcoin ad scam. A major Bitcoin (BTC) ad scam involving unauthorised images of Australian celebrities who seemingly promoted fake investment schemes is allegedly coming from Russia, according to a new report.Fraudulent Bitcoin ads capitalizing on Australian celebrities like Dick Smith and Andrew Forrest are part of an organized global business that uses at least five addresses in Moscow, an investigation by The Guardian asserts.On Dec. 13, The Guardian published a report providing more details about a major Bitcoin ad scam that has....
Some residents have reportedly told the crypto-friendly city of Próspera to “go home” following the Honduran government’s repeal of the ZEDE legislation which enabled it. The leadership of the crypto-friendly charter city of Próspera in Honduras has hit back at reports it is facing a backlash from residents of the neighboring community of Crawfish Rock over its expansion plans.A July 5 article from The Guardian reported the special economic zone, touted as an island paradise with low taxes/fiscal responsibility, luxury homes and crypto-friendly regulation has seen pushback from some....
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a center right, liberal conservative German paper founded in 1949, recently wrote a long article about the catchword after Bitcoin: the Blockchain. Or, as the article sometimes puts it, “the Blockchain.” The article at many points takes on a sarcastic tone, poking fun at the many wild theories about the potential of the “Blockchain” which proponents tout beyond the use-case of Bitcoin. When speaking about sober possibilities of the Bitcoin blockchain, the author Bettina Weiguny drops the quotations. She’s not convinced the blockchain can save the world.....